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Independent lives?: community care and disabled people
- Author:
- MORRIS Jenny
- Publisher:
- Macmillan
- Publication year:
- 1993
- Pagination:
- 199p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Draws on in-depth interviews with disabled people to explore the experience of receiving help with daily living activities. Covers: the development of community care policies and their application to disabled people; the ideas of the independent living movement; the debate on informal care; the experience of residential care, of being dependent on a partner or relatives for assistance and the experience of statutory services. Calls for policy-makers and professionals to recognise the civil and human rights of disabled people.
The best place to be? Residential school placements for disabled children
- Authors:
- ABBOTT David, WARD Linda, MORRIS Jenny
- Journal article citation:
- Children Now, 13, Summer 2002, pp.7-8.
- Publisher:
- Haymarket
Reports on recent research from the Joseph Rowntree Foundation which examined residential school placements for disabled children. Focuses on the experiences of the children, parents attitudes, and whether placements are monitored by local authorities.
Schools morass
- Author:
- MORRIS Jenny
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 11.4.02, 2002, pp.38-39.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Looks at the placement of disabled children in residential schools and why it brings into question the implementation of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child.
The social services function of local authorities: implications arising from the Human Rights Act 1998
- Author:
- TEASDALE Jonathan
- Publisher:
- Local Government Information Unit
- Publication year:
- 1999
- Pagination:
- 26p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Briefing paper exploring the effects of the Human Rights Act 1998 on social services provision, and looking specifically at: children's services; adult services (including residential care); services for disabled people and people with mental health problems; availability and rationing of medical treatment; and registration and closure of residential homes.
The Human Rights Act 1998: the social services function of local authorities: implications arising from the Human Rights Act 1998; no.3
- Author:
- TEASDALE Jonathan
- Publisher:
- Local Government Information Unit
- Publication year:
- 1999
- Pagination:
- 26p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Briefing paper exploring the effects of the Human Rights Act 1998 on social services provision, and looking specifically at: children's services; adult services (including residential care); services for disabled people and people with mental health problems; availability and rationing of medical treatment; and registration and closure of residential homes.